Paying for the tuxs...

rievergurl13

So is it common practice for the bride and groom to cover the cost of the tuxs for the wedding party?  We won a $500 credit to one of the local tux rental places and I emailed my fiance since it was during the day.... obviously a mistake. Well between when I emailed him and when he got home that night he talked to his dad and told him about the credit. ok that was fine, but then proceeded to say that we were going to probably just pay for all the tuxs... WHAT? So we had a little discussion on bring ideas to the group before making any more decisions like that. Since we estimated it was going to be less than 800 for all the rentals or 300 after the credit what would you do just bite the bullet and pick up the tux rentals or say he miss spoke and that they are each going to get 100 of the 500 credit?

maribeth721

No this is not customary. Generally the wedding party is responsible for their own attire (i.e. tux/suit/BM dress). Is his Dad the only person he said this to? If the other GMs don't know he said this I wouldn't worry about it. You could apply the credit towords a portion of the cost of the tuxes if thats what you want to use it for.

SmallenForever

I'd pay for them, but I'm paying for all the wedding party's costs. It's just a nice thing to do. I'm always a little miffed when people spend so much money on other areas of their weddings but don't pay for their wedding party. 

kd.joseph

It is customary when someone agrees to be a part of your WP that they already know they have to pay for the dress or tux. That being said if you have the extra money why not divide it up to off-set some of their costs. Your FI's tux wont cost $500 dollars, see how much you have left and divide it up.

No one says you have to, but it'd be nice.

rievergurl13

Since were renting 7 his ends up being free. So I told him instead we should give the 5 men each $100 toward their rental (it should end up leaving $30-40 which isn't horrible), and we could cover the ring bearers tux since we are going to get the flower girls dress. Since the only one he told was his dad I don't think it got any further than that which is a good thing.

retaviato

You might want to check your paperwork for two things if you're using the nationwide chain stores for the tuxes. They are notorious for playing with the numbers. When you "win" a prize at a bridal show, we found out, they increase the price of the tux rental to offset the value of your prize. If you're not using one of the big chains, then you might not have to worry - It's just that a company is  probably not going to give a free rental to the groom and also a 500 dollar discount "prize" to the groomsmen. In most discount/prize cases, the fine print says that you can't combine prizes. Another issue is the total price of the tuxes. At the national chain stores the price is about $200 per rental, off of which come the discounts.
 Maybe everything is as it appears, but you might want to double check to make sure.